{"id":42446,"date":"2013-06-17T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42446"},"modified":"2013-06-17T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:39:32","slug":"rip-body-glove-co-founder-bob-meistrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42446","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Body Glove Co-Founder Bob Meistrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i-cBftCD2-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-42447\" alt=\"i-cBftCD2-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i-cBftCD2-L-200x161.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i-cBftCD2-L-200x161.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i-cBftCD2-L-450x362.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/i-cBftCD2-L.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>When a true waterman has to go it&#8217;s not bad to be on the water as <strong>Body Glove<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Bob Meistrell<\/strong>\u00a0was on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Meistrell was on his yacht The Disappearance on Sunday morning when he had a heart attack, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/ci_23474087\/body-glove-co-founder-bob-meistrell-dies-boat\"><em><strong>Daily Breeze<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. He was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Disappearance was the lead boat in the 22-mile Rock 2 Rock race Sunday from Isthmus on Catalina to Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro. As he&#8217;s done in previous years, Meistrell led the paddleboarders out of the harbor about 6:30 a.m., his son said. . .\u00a0But around 7, <strong>Robbie Meistrell<\/strong> said he&#8217;d received a call that his father&#8217;s boat, which was also carrying his mother, Patty, and a second cousin, had a double-engine failure. He was nearby and\u00a0preparing to help tow the vessel in when he heard soon after that his father had suffered a heart attack in the boat&#8217;s engine room, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meistrell, who founded Body Glove with his twin brother Bill, will be remembered as a legendary diver, surfer, and waterman. Our thoughts are with the entire Meistrell family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/ci_23474087\/body-glove-co-founder-bob-meistrell-dies-boat\">Daily Breeze<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a true waterman has to go it&#8217;s not bad to be on the water as Body Glove co-founder Bob Meistrell\u00a0was on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Meistrell was on his yacht The Disappearance on Sunday morning when he had a heart attack, according to a story in the Daily Breeze. He was 84 years old. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42450,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42446\/revisions\/42450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}